Bag holder



J. E.- WOLFE BAG HOLDER Jam 29, 1929. Q 1,700,248

Filed Dec. 2'7, 1926 Patented Jan. 29, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN E. WOLFE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIC, ASSIGNOR- OF ONE-HALF TO CALUMET COAL COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BAG HOLDER.

Application filed December 27, 1926.

This invention relates to an improved bag holder for discharge chutes, which is particularly adapted for use in coal bagging machinery.

he main objects of this invention are to proviue an improved bag holder of ineXpensive construction that may be conveniently manipulated for releasing bags from the dis charge end of a chute after they are filled.

Torkmen employed in a coal yard generally wear gloves or mittens and therefore they are unable to manipulate their lingers freely and to extend them into constricted spaces for actuating a confined holding means. The handles of an ordinary coal bag are soft and flexible and when the bag is hung on ordinary pegs of a discharge chute, the sides of the loops, forming the handles, are pulled closely together. This condition renders it diliicult for the workman to slip his mittened or gloved finger within the loops comprising the handles to lift the bag from the pegs.

lVhether the workman wears gloves or mittens, his thumbs are always free to release the improved holding means provided by this invention.

in the accompanying drawings, I have illustrated a specific embodiment of my invention in which:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view I of a discharge chute comprising my improved hag holder and showing a bag supported thereby; and

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary detail of one of the bag handle supporting hooks.

In the form shown, the chute lt is preferably of narrow width and is provided at each thereof with hooks 16 and 17 upon which the handles of the coal bag to be filled may be hung. Each of the bag handle hooks is made so that the handles of the coal bag can Serial No. 157,230.

be gotten off without lifting the bag which when filled with one hundred pounds of coal,

is rather difficult. This object is accomplished by constructing each hook with a horizontal outwardlyprojecting lug A which carries a bell crank shaped hook member B pivoted to the outer end thereof. VVhen the bell crank member B is in its normal position to receive abag handle, arm C thereof is adapted to restupon and be supported by the lug A, while the other arm D extends upwardly from the point of pivotal connection. .Vhile the bag is being filled, the handles rest on the arms G and after the bag is filled the handles are pushed outwardly, thereby rocking the hooks about their pivots and thus re leasing the handles.

When the bag is supported by the hooks, the arms D extend upwardly into unconfined 00 spaces where they may be readily engaged by the thumbs of a gloved or mittened hand.

I claim:

A coal bagging chute having a pair of bag handle supporting hooks mounted one on each side of said chute adjacent the discharge end thereof, each of said supporting hooks comprising a horizontally disposed lug, a bell crank pivotally mounted at the outer eX tremity of said lug, one arm of said bell crank being adapted to rest on and be supported by said lug when in one position, the other arm of said bell crank being arranged to extend upwardly from the point of pivotal connection when said bell crank is in said. one posi- 76 tion, said bell crank being adapted to rotate on said pivotal connection substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

Signed at Chicago this 18th day of December, 1926.

JOHN WOLFE. 

